Chapter 212: Let's Prepare to Welcome the Immigrants

The number of applicants wishing to immigrate to New Wrexham increased more than expected.

I’m putting a burden on the house steward, Smith, and his subordinates who are handling it.

By the way, applicants for immigration are subjected to a secondary interview after an initial screening of their application documents.

The reason the screening is strict is because New Wrexham is a town that uses a lot of cutting-edge technology, and it’s also an experimental city for living alongside Golems.

As a result of discussing it with His Majesty and Father, we decided to be careful so that people trying to steal technology or those who would cause problems don’t immigrate.

It’s something to be grateful for that there are many people who wish to immigrate despite the troublesome process.

Recently, I’ve heard that conversely, because the screening is strict, being granted permission to immigrate has become something of a status symbol.

Thus, the number of immigrants to the town in the undeveloped lands has been increasing.

I need to prepare new housing.

I didn’t expect this many immigration applicants to come, but I had originally made a town planning with plenty of leeway.

The residential areas were kept spacious, so there is no problem on that point.

Today, I came to New Wrexham to build houses together with Theo and the workshop craftsmen.

“Master, what shall we build today?”

“Yeah. I’m thinking of building stone apartment buildings along the main street.”

“Oh, apartments? So we are actually building those show homes.”

The young workshop craftsmen’s eyes sparkled.

“Yeah. I thought more people could live that way, and it would appeal to the advanced nature of this town.”

“Yes, it’s exciting.”

If it also serves as encouragement for the young craftsmen, it’s killing two birds with one stone.

Let’s make the entrances of the apartment buildings luxurious by attaching marble.

Though I won’t go as far as attaching chandeliers like in the hotel, of course.

Theo and I build the apartments floor by floor.

The craftsmen will work hard on the interior of the rooms.

Even in this world, there are collective housing buildings in the centers of cities.

But most are wooden, and a 5-story stone building doesn’t exist even in the Royal Capital.

New Wrexham will come to be known as a town lined with large stone apartment buildings, in addition to its 10-story high-rise hotel.

By the way, as immigrants arrive and the population increases, shops for daily life become necessary, not just the shops and restaurants aimed at tourists like before.

Therefore, as soon as the number of immigration applicants started to increase, Oliver began constructing restaurants and stores for the residents.

Thanks to that, by the time the immigrants start moving in, new shops will have started opening.

Come to think of it, the New Wrexham branch of the Levant Company was also recently completed.

Because the cafe was well-received, it imitated its exterior, using plenty of glass and having outer walls made of polished black stone that act like a mirror.

As expected, I can’t just give preferential treatment to the Levant Company, so unlike the cafe, the internal space wasn’t expanded.

Even so, Oliver seemed satisfied, saying, “It will be good advertising for the company.”

Since the number of immigration applicants increased, other trading companies have also started building facilities for settlers one after another.

The workshop takes orders for the new construction of buildings, and because the tireless Golems cooperate with the craftsmen making full use of their Production Skills, the construction progresses rapidly.

In New Wrexham, the sounds of ongoing construction echo here and there in the town.

I never imagined that a town in the undeveloped lands, where people didn’t want to come, would overflow with this much vitality.

By the way, although we carefully check the character of the people immigrating, we don’t do such checks for tourists.

Therefore, when the town overflows with many tourists, troubles inevitably arise.

The town’s security has been handled by the knights of the Fairchild family and the Golems, but recently, a powerful helper has started coming.

That is the Royal Knights.

His Majesty had declared that the Royal Family would also cooperate with the development of the undeveloped lands.

As part of that, a base for the Royal Knights operating in the undeveloped lands was built in Tintern, the southernmost town of the Fairchild territory.

Now, the Royal Knights are also hunting monsters in the undeveloped lands, and they’ve started patrolling New Wrexham as well.

Especially when nobles who come for sightseeing make troublesome demands, it’s reassuring because the Royal Knights are used to handling such situations.

Thanks to the cooperation of many people, the first town in the undeveloped lands seems like it will become a comfortable and safe town.